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  Is Linux more secure than Windows?
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  @Chas4 , Exactly, a few years ago, the Windows Defender evidently only offered a fairly rudimentary and deficient defense, which necessitated the use of a third-party AV. By then I had very good experiences with the Panda, which I still consider among the best. But currently Windows Defender, according to AV test, offers the same or better protection than other AVs in the market (100% detection rate), making unnecessary to use a third-party AV, with the added advantage of being integrated into the system.
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  How to choose a browser in 2020
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  Excellent Olga; wonderful! Thank you so much!
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  Minor update (3) for Vivaldi 2.10
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  Thank you for the update and security issues fix!
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  Tweak new tab opening and closing behavior in Vivaldi
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  For the time being it is only possible to configure the "New Tab" behaviour either as "Next to the active (or related) Tab" or "As last Tab". Is it possible to include the entry "New Tab next to this one" into the context menu? With this it is possible to easily open a new Tab next to the active one while in settings the "Position of New Tabs" is configured as "As last Tab". Thanks
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  5 things you should know about dark mode
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  For me dark mode is better for my eyes cos i hate bright white light even when i sleep i want it to be pitch black
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  Vivaldi on Android: Beta 2
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  @foxifox https://vivaldi.com/android/ has a download link for the apk
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  Create more visual blogs on vivaldi.net
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  FYI the initial "private" post that is created when starting your blog is created as a public/published post, not private as described.
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  Ad blockers or not – your choice matters
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  I buyed the lifetime version of Adguard, since that time there is no ad on neither my devices.
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  Minor update(2) for Vivaldi Android Beta 2
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  Thank you for your work! I'm so happy that I can finally use vivaldi on both my laptop and my phone.
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  User Agent Changes
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  @Pesala Yes, at the bottom of the HTML5 Test Page, they note: "The HTML5 test does not try to test all of the new features offered by HTML5, nor does it try to test the functionality of each feature it does detect." IOW, they're apparently profiling parts of Vivaldi as they believe it would behave from some database they have and reporting that result in their 'test' tables. A nice example of the User Agent String being used to shape a website response.
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  Minor update (2) for Vivaldi 2.10
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  FYI, 79.0.3945.130 dropped today, with 11 security fixes: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
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  Why I replaced the browser on the new Pinebook Pro
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  I do use VIVALDI on my pinebook pro. But widevine drm does not seem to work. I made a symlink of WidevineCdm.so in opt/vivaldi to usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidewinecdm.so. But videos at https://demo.castlabs.com with drm do not play. What am I missing? Can you help me please? Vivaldi 2.10.1745.26 (Stable channel) (32-bit) Revision 182b46dfa34819c30511128cebe63e8375d8e6af OS Linux JavaScript V8 7.9.317.32 Flash (Disabled) User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.118 Safari/537.36 Command Line /usr/bin/vivaldi --use-gl=egl --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-webrtc-apm-in-audio-service --save-page-as-mhtml Executable Path /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi Profile Path /home/rock/.config/vivaldi/Default
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  Search engines: Time to take a stand
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  @prascal Wow... That's quite a necro-bump for this old thread! Can't say I ever use Qwant but I'll try remember to look at it again when I'm next at a PC...
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  How to save and open groups of tabs in Vivaldi
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  Right clicking on an open tab doesn't work in the latest (2.10) Vivaldi. I also used to be able to turn my saved sessions into a bookmark folder that I could than move to the Bookmark bar to access conveniently when I come back to the browser. So, how do I "BOOKMARK" multiple tabs that actually works? I leave tabs open and move to the next topic of research. Therefore, my open tabs are the end result of my research, which I then would like to save to bookmarks in the sequence they're in. Thx!
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  Vivaldi’s powerful privacy settings
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  @gajk If you signed up for vivaldi sync, you may have ticked to join the mailing lists. You can unsubscribe from them easily using a link at the bottom of them. You can also unsubscribe from them here: https://vivaldi.com/newsletter/unsubscribe These mailing lists are informational (letting you know about browser updates etc.) and run by Vivaldi, and your details are never shared with 3rd parties.
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  Take full page screenshots in one simple step
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  @Ayespy It should be possible to capture the whole page, e.g. by allowing to make consecutive screenshots each capturing the next 30000px.
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  Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached
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  @mossman said in Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached: @ukanuk said in Vivaldi 2.10: No strings attached: I just got the latest updates with Norton LiveUpdate, and can confirm at least on my system that it seems to be working again without the workaround Good news! Okay, I will include "that corporate laptop" in the update round this time... Oh dear... still didn't work for me I found that creating a shortcut with Windows 8 compatability option gets it to work, but it shows a thick outline in full-screen (3 or 4 pixels) so I will see if the command-line workaround fixes that. (Edit: it does) Another oddity running only this laptop - the icon in the task bar is blank for some reason (since a couple of months ago).
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  How to use Instagram in Vivaldi browser
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  @Agoracom I think this isn't possible, even because the the mobile webversion doesn't allow the multiple selection.
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  Nerding with Vivaldi on a Raspberry Pi
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  Hello, I am brand new to raspberry pi (just came in the post Monday)! I haven't done projects yet but have Vivaldi up and running.
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  Privacy and the rise of the alternative search engine
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  @Alihussain said in Privacy and the rise of the alternative search engine: https://google.com https://tosdr.org/